Reception - Kangaroos: Blog items

Autumn is here!, by Mrs Thomson

Date: 27th Sep 2024 @ 2:56pm

What a week! Wonderful kangaroos! Lots of learning and lots of fun!

This week we having been learning about Harvest and spotting signs of Autumn. After talking about farmers and harvest we had fun baking bread with Mrs. Morrison. One of our kangaroos has already asked Mrs. Morrison if she can make chicken and vegetable pie with them next time! Sounds like a great plan!

We have been counting in maths with Henry hedgehog and we have had four new sounds to learn (new cards added to your wallet) I wonder if your kangaroo can teach you the action to g, o, c and k.

We have enjoyed dough disco, story massage and PE. We had lots of fun learning to put on our puddle suits in preparation of the Autumn and winter weather.

We are working hard with scissors and writing our name.

The children had fun with Mr. Sumner today and did lots of acting before making musical instruments with Miss. Darby.

Thank you for your support with reading. The children are so proud to tell us about their reading and what new words they can sound out! Fantastic!

Super Reading!, by Mrs Thomson

Date: 22nd Sep 2024 @ 7:34pm

A huge thank you for attending our phonics and reading meeting. The kangaroos have embraced their reading books and are surprising themselves each day reading words during our phonics sessions. A huge thank you for hearing your child read each day - please remember to initial or leave a comment in the record book.

Please remember to drop into our 'Bookworm Bistro' on a Wednesday 3.45-4pm to ask any questions, read to your child, talk about phonics or just come and chat. You are always welcome!

During the week ahead we will be learning about Harvest and Autumn. If you go on a walk please look out for signs of Autumn and feel free to send in leaves, acorns, pine cones and conkers that you collect. We are going to create an Autumn display to encourage drawing, writing, weaving, observing and colour mixing.

A huge thank you to Joey who told us all about honey and even brought in a honeycomb to show us. Everyone listened and enjoyed learning about how the bees make the honey, how the smoke made the bees leave the hive and how to separate the wax from the honey. Great job Joey!

The kangaroos received their first two class compliments last week. Two members of staff spotted the whole class working as a team and following our golden rules. Well done Kangaroos!!

Please ask your child about our 'story massage'. Our song this week was 'Twinkle Twinkle'. Perhaps they will show you and you may enjoy a shoulder and back massage. The kangaroos were very relaxed, calm and quiet after the session!

Kind Kangaroos!, by Mrs Thomson

Date: 13th Sep 2024 @ 3:41pm

What a wonderful week! Superstar children!!

Kind words, kind hands and kind feet! Our classroom has been cared for and the children have shown kindess to each other!

A lovely day of phonics, music, drama and dancing! I think your kangaroo may be ready for a rest over weekend!

Yesterday I sent home a plastic wallet of sounds. I hope your kangaroo taught you the actions and the sounds! They did say they were going to be Mrs.Thomson!

Please look at these sounds as often as you can because this will help when the reading books come home. Please send the wallet back to school in your book bag every Thursday morning. New cards and words will be added to the wallet each Thursday.

Highlights from our week -

• The kangaroos met their year 5 buddy. They got to share their 'All about Me' books with their new year five friends
• We started learning a song for our Harvest celebration. We will sing it and also sign it in Makaton.
• We have started our phonics adventure! A new sound has appeared everyday!
• We all found a new friend to play with by finding who had the missing piece to a heart.
• We joined in with year one and year two singing practice.

An exciting day tomorrow!, by Mrs Thomson

Date: 9th Sep 2024 @ 9:01pm

Tomorrow the kangaroos will meet their year five buddies. Both classes are so excitied! Our buddies will come and have story sessions with us, play afternoons and they will hold our hands when we walk to church for celebration assemblies. Tomorrow we will be sharing our 'All about me' books with them and have a story time together.

Today we started our phonics learning. The kangaroos did a sorting game finding objects which start with the 's' sound, we had a practise of writing the sound holding a pencil correctly. We did an activity on the scissor station and also set up our 'wow' washing line to hang up pictures, writing and crafts that we are proud of! Super busy kangaroos!

Lots of kangaroos had their name on one of our 'super stars' today. Our mission for this week is to 'use kind words'. Everytime we hear someone using kind words in class and around school the kangaroos find their name star and pop it on the board. 

Wonderful Wednesday!, by Mrs Thomson

Date: 4th Sep 2024 @ 7:01pm

The kangaroos have been superstars today!

Our day began with a PE lesson in the hall. We worked on moving safely, finding spaces, working on positions (next to, around, behind and in front of) and also our driving skills. Our hearts were beating very fast and we worked up an appetite for our toast and milk.

We have been using scissors, writing our name, painting a self portrait and exploring our classroom and outdoor area. We managed to get the bikes out today whilst the sun was shining.

Mrs.Morrison took groups of children on a Longton Primary School tour this afternoon. You can see from the pictures that they met lots of our staff and visited lots of classes today.

I am looking forward to chatting to you next week at our 'meet the teacher' afternoon. I have lots of exciting news to share with you!

Mrs.Thomson